Archive for February, 2009

Hi,

I’m sure it may be because I hadn’t RTFM in a while but I’ve just discovered that Transmit carries out Synchronisations based on its cache. I had always assumed that a mirror sync would update the cache first. I now realise this must have been causing some of my troubles with old files eventually reappearing on my server.

I use CODA to work on the site and Transmit to keep a set of rolling backups. (SVN has only just become an option for me.) I’ve been working on the site using CODA while Transmit stays open. I will now be making sure that I keep the syncing process separate (and restart Transmit before any sync operation) to avoid the glitches that have been troubling me. Obviously I’m looking to get my SVN server up and running as soon as possible.

Perhaps a notice in the Transmit UI to warn of this might be helpful.

Thanks

Update

Date: 25 February 2009 00:55:08 GMT+01:00
Subject: Re: Sync issues

Hi Gabriel,
This will be vastly improved in a future version of Transmit.
–
Les
Panic Inc.

Great stuff! Lets hope that new version is around the corner. I reckon it may well be. TBC.

FTP, Mac

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A digital compact to get excited about?

Posted by admin in Photography on February 22, 2009

The best [and only!] wide-angle photographer’s compact to come to market in ten years.

Or so it seems. There have been many quality compacts produced since digital imaging came of age. You know those arrogant/insecure youths stutting about showing off their CCDs, talking the talk and trying to walk the walk. Er, I digress. Of these wonders the Canon G series (currently the G10) has been the most notable in terms of being photographer friendly. Until now because because to this photographer light should not be squeezed: nothing has come near the gorgeously wide-angle and fabulously bright optics of the new(-ish) Panasonic Lumix LX3. And those optics are wrapped in a small and functional form. Am I gushing? Oh dear…

f2.0-2.8, 24-60mm

How much?

Somewhere around 450 euros. Not bad.

Who needs an SLR? With this kind of glass – I could lose about two kilos from my camera bag. Let me rephrase: I could lose my two kilo travelling camera bag.

compact, digital, wide-angle

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IE6 link bug over PNG

Posted by admin in Web design & development on February 22, 2009

One day I awoke brightly, but to my surprise…

I’ve been so excited to be able to use full alpha transparency PNGs and getting them to play nice in IE6. Today I’ve found another PNG/IE6 issue. It seems that in some cases IE6 doesn’t like to have links in an element that is child of one with a background PNG to which filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader is applied.

The solution (in my case) was very simple: just needed to close the div for the background and add another for the links. Now the links just appear to be contained by the background.

CSS trickery: eat my heart out.

bug, CSS, IE6, PNG, webdesign

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War Photographer

Posted by admin in Amusement, Music on February 19, 2009

Jason Forrest, "War Photographer", Shamelessly Exciting, Sonig Records, Dir. Joel Trussell.

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MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Mac 10.5 Leopard

Posted by admin in Web design & development on February 19, 2009

[Update! Lots of gotcha's with using the Apple package of PHP - found that its easier to do a couple of resets as noted here]

Following on from PHP and SSI set-up on a Mac OS X 10.5, now it’s time for MySQL database work. Everything is plain sailing to start with: get and install both MySQL and phpMyAdmin. Then the first snag – phpMyAdmin cannot make a secure connection to MySQL without mcrypt (a PHP encryption extension) – and PHP as shipped with Mac OS X doesn’t come with this.

No solutions here I’m afraid – I’m in a hurry to get the development copy of a site I’m working on ASAP so have just commented out the blowfish and cookies lines in the phpMyAdmin config.inc.php file.

Must get this fixed…

Next problem: default MySQL setup looks in the wrong place for the socket connection. In Leopard the socket sits here /private/tmp/mysql.sock. Edit two lines in the MySQL sections of /etc/php.ini so as to get:

mysql.default_socket = /private/tmp/mysql.sock and

mysqli.default_socket = /private/tmp/mysql.sock

Next problem…

Mac, mcrypt, MySQL

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Gabriel de Kadt

Archive for February, 2009

Quick and dirty DVD editing in iMovie

**Kirk Shelton, skate_freak_superstar